Sanitary belt



SANTTARY BELT il/army Patented Jan. 11, 1927.

UNITED STATES MYRON B. HAMMOND, OF BBIDGEPORT,

PATENT OFFICE.-.

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO THOMAS P.

SANITARY BELT.

Application filed February 4, 1926. Serial No. 85,896.

This invention relates to sanitary belts, such as are formed by anelastic waist band and non-flexible tabs which depend therefrom at thefront and rear portions thereof.

One object of'the invention is to insure the entire elasticity of thebelt throughout its length, which does not obtain in instances where thenon-elastic tabs are secured to the waist band across the width thereof.

Another object of the invention is to prevent the distortion or thewrinkling of the waist band, to the discomfort of the wearer, by mainlysustaining the strains placed on the tab from a limited inelastic partof the band that is formed by whipstitching together the abutted ends ofsuch band.

Other obiects will appear from the anneXed description taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view partly broken illustrating my improvement in connectionwith a waist band that is made of a single piece of elastic webbing;

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the belt constructed inaccordance with my improvement in the instance where such belt isV-shaped at the front and rear, and therefore neces arily made of twoseparate sections of elastic webbing, the latter being broken away, and

Figure 3 is a rear view of the front portion of the belt shown at Figure1.

Similar numerals of reference denote like parts in the several figuresof the drawing.

Referring to Figures 1 and 3, 1 is a waist band made of elastic webbing,whose edges are a'butted at the front of the device and secured togetherby a vertical row of whipstiches 2.

3 is a rear non-elastic fabric tab which depends from the band 1 andwhose upper edge overlaps the lower edge of the band and is securedthereto by a horizontal row of whipstitches 4.

5 is a non-elastic fabric tab depending from the band 1. and having itsupper edge overlapping the lower edge of the band and secured thereto bya horizontal row of whipstitches 6, which row intersects at a rightangle the lower end of the row of whipstitches 2, at the central portionof the row 6.

The chief strains upon the waist band are at the front portion, and willbe chiefly directed in a vertical plane and will be mainly sustained'bythe vertical row of whipstitches 2, and the peculiar way of securingthis tab 5 to the waist band, in the manner above described, precludesall likelihood of the tab tearing away from the lower edge of the band.

Moreover, since the whipstitches 2 occupy a very limited portion of theband, practically the elasticity of the entire area of the latter can beutilized. and since the row of stitches 2 forms a rigid inelastic barnot only will this bar sustain most of the strains upon the tab, butalso the waist band will not become unduly distorted and wrinkled so asto cause discomfort to the person of the wearer, and since the rear tab3 is not subjected to severe strains, the horizontal row of whipstitches4 which. secures the overlapping top edge of this tab to the lower edgeof the waistband is not at all likely to tear loose.

Referring to Figure 2, a construction is shown which is cut to a shallowV-shape at the front and rear in order to better fit the person of thewearer, this style of belt being sometimes preferred, and suchconstruction is necessarily composed of elastic webhing sections 7 and 8Whose edges are abutted at the rear and front portions of the waist bandand secured together by vertical rows of whipstitching 9, 10, and therear and front tabs are secured in position by overlapping the upperedges thereof against the lower edge portions of the band, and thensecuring the tabs by horizontal rows of whipstitching 11, 12, whichintersect at their central portions the rows of vertical whipstitches 9,10.

It will therefore be noted that the manner of securing the tabs to anyseamed portion of the waist band is precisely the same in both instanceswhile the advantages obtaining with respect to the construction shown atFigure 1 are equally applicable to the construction shown at Figure 2.

What is claimed is A sanitary belt including an elastic waist bandhaving abutting ends united by a line of whip stitching and anon-elastic fabric tab having its upper edge slightly overlapping thelower edge of said band and extending across the abutting ends of theband and secured thereto by a line of whip stitch-- ing which intersectsat aright angle the band inelastic, and to cause the first named firstnamed line of Whip stitching, the Whip line of Whipstitching to sustainpull exert stitching of each of said lines being of such ed by the tab.10 width and thickness so as to constitute rigid In testimony whereof Iaflix my signaconnections between the parts aforesaid and ture hereto.

to cause the second line of Whipstitching to render the adjacent portionof the Waist MYRON B. HALlMOND.

